Wisconsin · Nonprofit
STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC
STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,918 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- 1923 Fundlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Door County Inclocal
- Washington Tourism Allianceportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 11% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 25% · 2023 45% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $18k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- 1923 Fundlocalportfolio matchWI · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Door County InclocalWI · funds 30 organizations near you
- Washington Tourism Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McLaren Bay Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gougeon Employees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kantzler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of St Clair Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Five Wings Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC?
- STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,918 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $100,918 in grants to STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC?
- DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STURGEON BAY VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing